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PRETTY
PRETTY
Subtitle:
Film and the Decorative Image
Book Category:
Art > Film & Video
Author:
Galt, Rosalind
Binding:
Hardcover
ISBN 13:
978-0-231-15346-1
Price:
USD 79.50
Publication Year:
2011
Alternative Binding:
Paperback
Alternative ISBN 13:
978-0-231-15347-8
Alternative Price:
USD 24.50

Publisher Info

Dominic Scarpelli,

Columbia University Press,
61 West 62nd Street,
New York ,
New York - 10023,
USA
Web: www.cup.columbia.edu

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Book Description

Condemning the exclusion of the "pretty" from masculine film culture, Rosalind Galt reevaluates received ideas about the decorative impulse from early film criticism to classical and postclassical film theory. The pretty embodies lush visuality, dense mise-en-sc

 

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